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Landis set for last appeal of doping ban
US cyclist Floyd Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory for doping, makes his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) Wednesday in a do-or-die bid to regain his title.
The 32-year-old American has spent about two million dollars in fighting the positive doping test for steroid testosterone on July 20, 2006, but lost a 2-1 ruling before a US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) arbitration panel last September.
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Governing body to meet with riders over Paris-Nice row
The International Cycling Union (UCI) will meet with professional riders next Tuesday following the row over the Paris-Nice stage race.
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Cycling and mountain biking form a major part of the outdoor tourism economy in Scotland
Scottish Enterprise estimates more than 900,000 trips to Scotland each year feature cycling as part of the holiday.
A business summit in the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park is seeking to find ways to boost those numbers further, and develop park activities.
Read the rest of the article at BBC News
World Track Cycling: Can GB repeat gold rush?
Olympic champions Bradley Wiggins and Chris Hoy again lead the British challenge at the World Track Cycling Championships in Manchester next week (March 26-30), while Victoria Pendleton will be defending the three world titles she won in Palma last year.
Read the rest of the article at the Telegraph
World Bicycles Market to Reach in Excess of $61 Billion by 2010
Poised to register a CAGR of 5.28% over the 2001-2010 period, the world Bicycles market is projected to reach in excess of US$61 billion by 2010. Asia-Pacific, with a share estimated at 47.36% in the year 2007, forms the largest Bicycles market worldwide. The region is also slated to record the fastest growth with a CAGR of over 6.33% during the aforementioned period.
Adults Bicycles forms the largest segment in the global Bicycles market, accounting for an estimated 44.17% of the total. Sub-categories analyzed under Adults Bicycles include Mountain bicycles, Hybrid Bicycles, Touring Bicycles, and Specialty Bicycles. Sports Bicycles segment is forecast to grow at a strong CAGR of 6.15% over the 2001-2010 period.
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Marathon facing Olympics blow
Urban road cycling, mountain biking, marathon swimming, the triathlon and road walking are also at risk.
The IOC have revealed they will be forced to postpone high profile events such as the marathon, road cycling and the triathlon at this year's Olympics if pollution in Beijing does not improve.
Read the rest of the article at Guardian UK
Top IOC medical official says analysis of Beijing air quality finds some risk to athletes
The IOC's top medical officer says Beijing's air quality is better than expected, although a study shows there are risks to athletes in outdoor endurance events and conditions may be less than ideal during this summer's Olympic Games.
Arne Ljungqvist, chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Medical Commission, said Monday that an analysis by four independent experts of data supplied by Beijing organizers found heat and humidity might be a greater threat to athletes than the city's noxious air.
Read the rest of the article at International Herald Tribune
Testing agencies pushing privacy boundaries
The extent to which drug testers are able to intrude on athletes' private lives is in the spotlight after a urine sample was demanded from a cyclist who was organising the funeral of his son.
The Minister for Sport, Kate Ellis, has also asked the Privacy Commissioner and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority to justify the use of Medicare records of Australian Olympic athletes in the fight against drugs in sport.
Read the rest of the article at Sydney Herald
80,000 school children to receive cycle training in next 12 months
Transport Minister Rosie Winterton today announced that over £3 million would be dedicated to providing cycle training to nearly 80,000 school children by March 2009.
This funding is part of the £140 million package announced in January, which will give up to half a million ten to eleven year olds cycle training by 2012.
Cycling has a major role to play in the Government's drive to promote sustainable travel - 41% of all trips are less than two miles, a distance easily cycled in less than 15 minutes.
Read the rest of the article at 24dash.com
More Pedal Power in Oregon
Bicycle fever is burning hotter than normal in Eugene-Springfield this year.
Several recent developments have helped re-energize area bicycle advocates, including:
Adoption of a new Eugene Bicycle-Pedestrian Plan that, among other things, calls for creation of a "signature" bike event for the city.
In the discussion and early planning stages are a "community ride" and/or "Walk and Roll" Sundays, which would see two miles of Willamette Street closed to motor vehicles for several hours of "dragging the gut" on foot, bicycles or skates.
Read the rest of the article at The Register-Guard
Schwinn Signs First-ever National Bicycle Sponsorship of Team In Training
Schwinn Bicycles, America's most recognized bicycle brand, today announced the signing of a partnership with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training (TNT), the world's largest endurance sports training and fundraising program, to become its first-ever national bicycle sponsor. Schwinn is owned by Dorel Industries.
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Runaway boy cycled 600 miles
A teenage Dutch boy who ran away from home and headed to China with just £6 and a bag of crisps has finally been caught in Poland.
Cops have been searching for 16-year-old Collin Baker since he set out by bike from his home in Holland six days ago.
Read the rest of the article at Ananova
Bikes donated, shipped to Uganda Cycling Club
Bikes and accessories donated by readers of YourHub.com for the Uganda Cycling Club were loaded into a 40-foot shipping container along with medical supplies at the Project C.U.R.E. warehouse in Centennial in early March. The container is going to a children's hospital in Mbale, about 100 miles north of the capital city of Kampala.
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RCS starts talks for Giro's international TV rights
RCS Sport started negotiations with broadcasters for the international TV rights for its cycling events, including the Giro d'Italia, for the period from 2009 ˆ2012.
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When Easter hops along, kids of all ages look forward to one thing the most: getting a beautiful Easter basket stuffed with Easter eggs, chocolate, candy, toys and more. Today, these little bundles of Easter treats aren't just a simple tradition; they've become an essential part of welcoming spring all across the country. In fact, according to the National Confectioners Association, 80 percent of adults plan on giving their children Easter baskets this year.
You probably already know exactly what your little ones want in their baskets, but do you know how this custom got started? Read on to learn all about the history of Easter baskets, and share it with your kids as they unwrap their springtime goodies!
The First Easter Basket
The Easter basket we know today has a mixed history: Over time, it's been influenced by folklore and religion. The earliest appearance of the basket has been traced back almost 1,000 years ago.
Since ancient times, spring has been considered the season of new life and fresh beginnings. In 13th-century pre-Christian Germany, people believed in multiple gods and goddesses, including Eostra, the goddess of spring and fertility. Her symbol was the rabbit (back then, the rabbit was known as an emblem of fertility), and legend has it that she carried a basket full of eggs as a sign of life and rebirth. Every spring, baskets of seedlings were brought to her temple as an offering in exchange for healthy crops and a good harvest.
Eventually, the story of Eostra evolved into the German myth of the "Osterhase," or the "Easter hare"—a white hare that would bring colored eggs to good children on Easter. By the 18th century, German settlers introduced the tradition of the Easter hare to the United States. And just like that, the modern traditions of the Easter basket, Easter eggs and the Easter bunny were born!
Religion and the Easter Basket
The use of Easter baskets has also been a religious tradition since the beginning of the Easter holiday. For Christians, the 46 days before the Easter celebration marks the season of Lent, during which Christians give up a beloved food, such as meat, eggs or dairy. A big feast is enjoyed on Easter day, when the fast is over. In the earlier days of Christianity, the Easter feast was traditionally carried to the church in large baskets to be blessed by the priest. And so the custom of celebrating Easter with treat-bearing baskets has been passed down to generations of Christians ever since.
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Most people who have implemented ECM solutions will know that one of the challenges in an implementation is the level of Metadata which is used to describe the content and the challenge in getting users to complete it. I've lost count of the number of times when discussions have gone to the nth level of detail on whether metadata should be Optional or Mandatory and even when the discussion is closed and the solution is implemented you can do some Analysis of Metadata and you'll find a high percentage of it is of little use.
Now Twitter has introduced the # (hashtag). Nearly all users of Twitter will tag their Tweets with one or two hashtags to help describe their Tweets. Just looking at my Twitter feed now and I can see people like Robbie Savage, Rio Ferdinand and Stephen Fry using hashtags to describe their Tweets.
Hashtags are Metadata, just in a slightly more informal manner. But still they are a way for people to describe their content. People are starting to learn how to use Metadata as they use a Social Media tool. This discipline will soon find a way into the workplace, my company use Yammer internally and hashtags are used here as well. This understanding of the benefits will soon feed its way into the ECM solutions we deploy as more of the users of ECM tools are users of Twitter. This should reduce the challenge we have traditionally faced in the design of the Metadata in these solutions. However it will also introduce a new challenge as the informal manner of hashtags will increase the appetite for similar solutions in ECM deployments and we will need to find a way to harness this appetite.
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One of the things behind the success of Twitter is it so easy to use and there are so many different clients which can be used to post this content. People contribute because it is quick and easy and the feedback is immediate. Again this usage will start to feed its way into the working environment, Yammer being one of the most obvious ways in which this is happening. Whilst there will always be a place for documents to be written we will increasingly see that solutions need to be implemented which are in tune with this new way of working. We've talked about Mash Ups for a long time as a way of deploying solutions, I predict we will start see Content being produced as Mash Ups more and more as the content is taken from a mix of sources and, typically, in smaller chunks. This content will still need to be managed for a variety of reasons including Compliance and the ECM solutions will need to cater for this.
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The onset of winter weather varies from year to year and from place to place, but December 21, the winter solstice, is considered the first official day of winter. The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year. The days get longer as winter progresses. In the Northern Hemisphere, it also marks the day when the sun is furthest to the south.
Winter has long been immortalized in art, poetry, and song. For many of us, winter makes us think of frolicking on snowy days and reading by the fire on cold nights-even if we live in a warm place where it never snows! Brainstorm with your students about the words and images that come to mind when they think of winter. How do these words and images compare to their own experiences with winter weather? Have students select and read a picture book about winter. How do the words and images in the book compare to the list they brainstormed and to their own experiences? Students can use the interactive Venn Diagram to make the comparison.
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This page from American Memory at the Library of Congress celebrates the winter solstice through images and anecdotes of winters past, drawn from American literature and folk history.
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Aye there, lads and lassies – March is Irish Heritage month! Raise a glass to the rolling green hills and enchanting lore of Ireland. Did you know that about forty-four million Americans proudly share an Irish ancestry?
The main Irish event in March, of course, is St. Patrick's Day. Celebrated with parades, family functions, church Masses, and more. The heritage of Ireland is also kept alive and well throughout the month in different U.S. communities with various local celebrations. Irish-American Heritage Month is an annual proclamation issued by the US President or Congress to honor the achievements and contributions of Irish immigrants and their descendants living in the U.S.
Irish culture has many symbols, tales and superstitions. Just one of the interesting stories passed down through the generations includes the legend of the Claddagh. The Claddagh Ring signifies Love, Friendship and Loyalty or Fidelity. These rings are kept with great pride as family heirlooms, and are often passed down from mother to daughter on her wedding day. They are worn by both men and women all over Ireland and throughout the world. The design is of a heart held between two hands, with a crown on the top. The symbol also appears in other kinds of jewelry, but most commonly in ring form.
There are many versions of the beginning of legend of the Claddagh. Just one telling says that shortly before he was supposed to be married, a Claddagh fisherman named Richard Joyce was captured at sea by pirates and sold into slavery. His master was a rich goldsmith who decided to train him in the goldsmith craft. To keep his hope alive over the years, Richard stole a tiny speck of gold from his slave master's shop each day. So many years passed that he was able to eventually make a gold ring. He hoped that, despite great odds, he would return home again to give this special gift to his love. This was the first Claddagh Ring.
King George III eventually made a deal with the slave master to release all his enslaved subjects, and thus Richard Joyce was a free man. Richard returned to his village just outside the city of Galway and found that his sweetheart had been true and faithful. He presented her with the Claddagh Ring and they were married.
Wearing the Claddagh:
-Worn on the right hand, crown turned inwards, your heart is yet unoccupied.
-Worn on the right hand, crown turned outwards, shows a special commitment to someone.
-Worn on the left hand, crown outwards, means that love and friendship reign forever – never to be separated.
Do you have a Claddagh Ring? What's the story behind yours?
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Whārangi 1: Early life and schooling
Muldoon, Robert David
Accountant, politician, prime minister
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Robert David Muldoon (known as Rob or Bob) was the only son of James Henry Muldoon, a government inspector, and his wife, Amie Rusha Browne. He was born in Auckland on 25 September 1921. His paternal grandfather, James Henry Muldoon (senior), was a Methodist evangelist and social worker in one of Auckland's poorest working-class areas. His maternal grandmother, Jerusha (Rusha) Browne, brought up three children alone after being deserted by her husband. Her admiration for the Liberal and then Labour parties was very evident to her grandson, who spent many hours in her company during his youth.
Father's illness
When Rob Muldoon was seven his father, a staff sergeant who served in Egypt and Europe for over three years during the First World War, entered the Point Chevalier psychiatric hospital. He remained there until his death in 1946. Rob was told that his father became partially paralysed and lost his memory and the power of speech because of post-war psychosis and the stress of business failure – but he was also suffering from syphilis.
School years
Rob's mother worked long hours making furniture covers to support herself and her son and pay off the mortgage on a small house at Western Springs. When Rob was five, a pointed dowel on the front gate pierced his cheek, breaking the muscle and leaving him with a distinctive scar and lopsided smile.
Rob went to Mt Albert Primary and Kōwhai Intermediate Schools before winning a Rawlings scholarship to Mt Albert Grammar School, which he attended from 1933 to 1936. Apart from usually being near the top of the class in English, he did not have a particularly distinguished academic record, despite achieving an exceptionally high non-verbal intelligence test score in the fifth form.
Rob matriculated in his fourth year but lack of funds removed any possibility of his going to university. He worked first as an office boy at Fletcher Construction, and then took a similar post at the Auckland Electric Power Board. In his spare time he was active in the Mt Albert Baptist Bible class and the YMCA, and studied accountancy through Hemingway's correspondence courses.


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The Annunciation: The angel Gabriel visits Mary to announce to her that she will be the mother of God. At this moment, Jesus Christ miraculously conceived, and God is made flesh and blood.
The Visitation: Mary and Elizabeth, who are cousins, meet. Mary is pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth is pregnant with St. John the Baptist. Elizabeth (and her son in her womb) recognize the miracle of Christ in Mary's womb.
The Nativity: Mary gave birth to Christ in a stable while the animals watched. In works of art, Joseph, Mary's husband, often sits off to the side and sleeps.
Adoration of the Magi: Three Magi (by tradition, kings from the East), follow a miraculous star that leads them to Christ, who has just been born in a stable. The Magi offer gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh (both are aromatic tree resins), and worship the infant Christ.
The Presentation: Mary and Joseph present Christ in the temple at Jerusalem. They encounter Simeon, who was told by the Holy Spirit that he would not die until he had seen the messiah.
The Temptation: Satan visited Christ during his 40 day fast in the wilderness and tempted him to use his powers. In the third and final temptation, Satan asked Christ to worship him, which Christ refused to do.
The Raising of Lazarus: This was one of the many miracles Christ performed that are recorded in the Gospels. Christ was friends with Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, who were siblings. Lazarus became ill and his sisters sent to Christ for help. Lazarus died and was in the grave for four days before Christ raised him from the dead by calling him out of his tomb.
Entry into Jerusalem: Christ rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, where he was greeted by crowds of people. These crowds laid down their cloaks for him and waved palm branches at him, welcoming him into Jerusalem as their leader.
The Last Supper: Christ ate dinner with his apostles and encouraged them to eat bread and drink wine in remembrance of him. He also told the apostles that one of them would betray him.
Agony in the Garden: After the Last Supper, Christ went to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane with his apostles. He asked them to wait and pray with him, but they fell asleep. Jesus prayed alone and bled from every pore.
Kiss of Judas: Judas, who has been paid 30 pieces of silver to betray Christ's whereabouts to the Roman authorities, leads them to him, and identifies him with a kiss (or an embrace). Christ is arrested by the Romans.
Christ before Pilate: Roman soldiers take Christ to Pilate, the Roman prefect. Pilate tries Jesus, but does not find him guilty. Pilate tells the angry crowd that he will release one prisoner, but they do not choose Jesus. Pilate orders Christ to be whipped and crucified.
The Crucifixion: Christ is crucified at Golgotha as his mother Mary and the apostle John watch. Jesus is offered vinegar and soon dies. He is stabbed with a lance after his death. Pilate gives Joseph of Arimathea permission to take the body of Christ off the cross. Joseph places the body in a tomb and rolls a large stone over the door. Pilate orders guards to watch the tomb.
Descent from the Cross (also known as The Deposition): Christ's body is taken down from the cross by Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. They bring a shroud for the body. Other figures often included in representations of this scene are the Virgin Mary, St. John the Evangelist and the three Marys (three women mentioned in the Gospels as followers of Christ, all named Mary but not including the Virgin Mary, Jesus' mother).
The Marys at the Tomb: In one tradition, the three Marys were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Mary Salome, in another, they were the three daughters of St. Anne. They went to the tomb to wash and anoint the body of Christ, but when they got there, the large stone was rolled away from the door. An angel tells the Marys that Christ is not there. Throughout the Middle Ages, this scene signaled the Resurrection of Christ.
The Resurrection: Christ emerges triumphant from the tomb and carries the banner of the resurrection, a white flag with a red cross. This scene was first developed in Early Renaissance art.
Noli me Tangere: Mary Magdalene went to the tomb to mourn Christ. She finds Christ, but initially mistakes him for the gardener. When Mary realizes that he is Christ, he says "Touch me not" or "noli me tangere" in Latin.
The Ascension/Pentecost: After forty days with his followers, Christ ascends into heaven. As he does this, the Holy Spirit descends on them, an event known as Pentecost.
Last Judgment: Christ is often represented in art as judge at the end of time. These scenes often show Christ enthroned in heaven surrounded by apostles and angels, who help him judge the souls of humankind. Good Christians go to heaven, a beautiful orderly place, and the damned go to hell where they are tormented for eternity.


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My head started hurting after the first hour of using Mac OS X Lion. Two words: inverted scrolling.
That's correct – Lion's default scrolling behavior is to scroll down when you swipe up on your multitouch mouse, and to scroll up when you swipe down, just like you would on an iPad.
This modification in scrolling clearly illustrates Apple's ambition with Mac OS X Lion, which was to make the Mac operating system more like the mega-popular iOS software powering not just the iPad, but also the iPhone and the iPod Touch.
Apple CEO Steve Jobs previously said the company was learning lessons from the iPad and rolling them into its desktop operating system. The company envisions a future where PCs become more and more like mobile products, as they continue to get thinner, lighter, more battery-efficient and more dependent on online storage. Apple's Lion, MacBook Air and the upcoming iCloud online storage service symbolize the gradual convergence between PCs and tablets.
And while that all sounds great, some of Lion's iOS-like features scale up very well, while others behave very poorly in a desktop environment.
First, let me finish my rant about inverted scrolling. I wanted very badly to adapt to Lion's new so-called "natural scrolling" behavior, but I had to shut it off after two days because it just felt too awkward.
"I'm trying to use a computer, not play freakin' Golden Eye," I complained to a friend.
Inverted scrolling makes sense on an iPad, where you swipe the screen in one direction and it moves in the opposite direction, like a world globe does in real life when you spin it with your fingers. But on a Mac, I believe it's the disconnect between peripheral and screen that makes it less intimate than a touchscreen device, and therefore uncomfortable to replace traditional mouse gestures with the real-world swipe.
Same goes for side swipes, which control Spaces, Apple's screen-management tool that gives you multiple desktop screens to work with. The default behavior of side-swiping is: Take two fingers and swipe to the right, and the screen moves toward the left so you can view your Dashboard. If you happen to have an app open in full-screen mode, you can swipe to the left, which moves you to a Space to your right, to look just at that full-screen app. Again, this swiping behavior feels unnatural on a Mac, even though it makes perfect sense on an iPad.
All that said, it's easy to disable inverted scrolling in the system preferences. So this isn't a major issue, but merely an example of a bigger problem in Lion: awkward usability in some of the operating system's new interface tweaks.
I particularly didn't like Launchpad, another iPad-like element. Hit the Launchpad icon and boom – you've got a large grid of beautiful, huge icons, and you can select your app there. It looks almost exactly the same as the iPad's springboard screen.
Here's where a lot of Mac-hating trolls will swear that Apple chooses form over function: The Launchpad just doesn't work well with a mouse and a desktop device. Imagine how exhausted I got using Launchpad on my 27-inch iMac. My eyes had to dart across the entire screen, up and down and left to right, just to find the app I wanted to launch. And then I'd have to mouse over to click on the app.
By contrast, the experience on an iPad of finding an app and launching it with a tap is a lot quicker and more pleasant (though a 27-inch touchscreen would probably present issues as well). Ultimately, on a Mac, this experience felt tacky and inefficient, and I reverted to using the older view of my Applications folder as a list.
Another new interface-related feature is Mission Control, which has nothing to do with the iPad. It's basically an iteration of Exposé, the desktop-management tool that shrinks and spreads your applications all over the screen so you can switch between them easily – a feature I instantly fell in love with when it debuted in Mac OS X Panther.
Unfortunately, I can't say I feel the same about Mission Control, which not only shows your open applications, but also your Spaces. Mainly, it just looks uglier than Exposé did. What's with the small app icon hovering beneath each opened application? It seems unnecessary and, again, tacky.
With those complaints thoroughly aired out, one new Lion feature I really enjoyed was full-screen mode. Apple's built-in apps now have an icon you can click on in the corner – two diagonal arrows – which expands the application to take up the entire screen.
That may not sound interesting to you, but in an age where Facebook, Twitter and chat clients present never ending distractions, it's nice to hit a single button to filter out all the noise and focus on one task.
It's similar to the comfort of reading a website or using an app on an iPad: The content takes over the screen, and it's much easier to focus. That's what Apple was going for with full-screen mode, and this works. Programmers have the option to add full-screen support to any of their third-party Mac apps, which will be great.
Other than interface changes, Apple does offer a number of awesome goodies: AirDrop, Resume and AutoSave.
AirDrop is a simple utility for wirelessly sharing documents with nearby Lion users: Just drop a document on your friend's avatar, and it'll show up on his or her Mac. I tried this between an iMac and a MacBook Pro running Lion, and it worked in a snap.
The Resume and AutoSave features work together in an interesting way. Exit an application, and when you reopen it, it will pick up exactly where it left off. So if you're editing an image in Photoshop, for example, you can just quit the app and relaunch it, and your image will load with your latest edits. You no longer have to save before you exit! You'll love this if you lose work because you haven't been in the habit of saving frequently.
For the most part, Mac OS X is the same, solid operating system Apple customers have grown familiar with for the past 10 years. Some of the key iPad-like interface tweaks are ugly or nearly useless, but if you just disable and ignore them like I did, full-screen mode, AirDrop, Resume and AutoSave make this very affordable $30 upgrade worth your purchase.
And don't bother looking for this upgrade in a box – you'll be able to download OS X Lion instantly from the App Store.
WIRED Polishes the corners of Mac OS X: AirDrop, Resume, AutoSave, full-screen mode and upgraded Mail app are winning additions. Apple's visions of a future awash in gesture-based input devices, and the language we'll use when we get there, are being mapped out in plain view. The price is right.
TIRED Most of the iPad-like gestures don't translate eloquently to the desktop. Our brains aren't prepared to flip the script on scrolling. New Launchpad feature is confusing on Macs with larger screens. Mission Control is ugly; bring back Exposé.


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PITTSBURGH – More to follow on VCU's 90-63 win at Duquesne later, but a few pieces of housekeeping:
- With the win, Shaka Smart improves to 100-31 all-time. He is the third VCU coach, joining J.D. Barnett and Sonny Smith, to reach that plateau. Smart reaches 100 wins in the 30th fewest games in NCAA history and is just the 12th coach to top the century mark in his first four seasons.
- VCU's victory was its 13th straight, the third longest in school history. The Rams won 16 in a row Jan. 18-March 13, 1981 and 15 straight Jan. 15-March 4, 1983.
- Sophomore Treveon Graham scored 20 points in 21 minutes of play. It's his fifth 20-point game of the season and his third in five games. Graham is averaging 20.5 points per game in his last six contests.
- VCU knocked down 12-of-29 three-pointers Saturday, its most in five games.
- Senior Troy Daniels buried two 3-pointers to become the fourth VCU player to hit 200 in his career. He joins B.A. Walker, Joey Rodriguez and Bradford Burgess on that exclusive list.


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D.R. Fraley says he was blindsided when his daughter's teacher was removed from her public school classroom. Administrators couldn't provide answers. His daughter, who thrives on consistency, regressed so much and became so agitated that he pulled her out of school.
His pain was joined by disappointment as he was unable to reach the man with absolute power over the school system.
For weeks, he begged county commissioners to put him in contact with Superintendent Rick Smith.
There was little they or state legislators could do, Fraley was told.
But Fraley and Smith spoke last week. More than once. For hours.
In the month since Fraley's public appeal, dozens of parents have come forward to commissioners and media outlets with stories about the education and treatment of their children -- some of the school system's most vulnerable students.
Fraley said he has noticed a few common threads, including communication issues, tough-to-reach decision-makers and trouble getting certain services.
While some complaints have been as serious as to allege abuse, advocate Kim Hayes said communication is likely the root of many of the problems.
Hayes taught special education in Hamilton County for three decades. And any issues she ever had with parents, she said, were usually resolved at the building level, not central office.
She said parents feel voiceless. And sometimes programming decisions are driven by money, not always what's best for each individual student.
"They don't have to provide the best. The law says they have to provide an appropriate program for each kid. It doesn't say they have to provide the best program," Hayes said. "I think sometimes the spirit of the law and the letter of the law are misused."
Smith and Fraley still disagree on some issues. The superintendent says, for example, that he "absolutely disagreed" with the parents' public showing at the courthouse and that he stands by the district's special education staff.
But for the first time in weeks, Fraley is optimistic, and said he believes other special education parents have reason to be as well.
The superintendent has looked into Fraley's particular problem and says he plans to review the cases of any other parents who contact him.
But Fraley's hope is grounded in something more fundamental than that:
Smith has been in his shoes.
Key players in the central office say they plan to review the cases of parents who voice concerns. In response to some parents' concerns, Smith said the district made a personnel change at the school Fraley's daughter attends.
But district officials insist that the special education department is providing appropriate services and education to the thousands of students with special needs. And Smith said he sees no evidence of widespread problems within that department.
In fact, the district is providing more special education services and programs than ever before, said Special Education Director Margaret Abernathy. More students are graduating with regular education diplomas and more are going on to find competitive employment, she said.
She said the special education experience is generally very positive for families, which is why the sudden uproar at the county courthouse came as a surprise.
"We feel like we're almost being blindsided," she said.
Her department has meetings set up with concerned parents in the coming weeks, Abernathy said, but some parents went public with their problems before bringing them to the school system.
The county spends about $50 million on salaries, benefits, supplies and programs to serve about 8,600 Hamilton County students who qualify for some special education services or accommodations. That's about 20 percent of the county's 42,000 public school students.
But those figures include 2,257 students in gifted programs and 1,600 more with learning disabilities who usually are cared for in regular classrooms.
Not all families have had problems. Even the most vocal of recent critics have said that they also have many positive stories of caring teachers and wonderful programming that led to marked improvements in their children.
At last week's commission meeting, one parent even praised the special education department.
"These people probably ended up at County Commission because of a lack of response," said Jerry Jensen, president and CEO of the Siskin Children's Institute, a nonprofit that provides research, health care, education and services to children with special needs.
But if the concerns of parents aren't dealt with soon, they could escalate, leading to potential involvement by state or federal agencies or even lawsuits, Jensen said.
"And that's not in anybody's best interest," he said. "There's really no reason to have to go down that path."
Fraley said he has purposely kept lawyers out of it and has made an effort to work out his problems through proper channels.
He insists he's not trying to make the county look bad. In fact, he's been impressed with his daughter's teacher, who for two years fostered significant improvement in the child. That's why he was so stunned and upset with the teacher's removal from the classroom.
Now, he's encouraged that the superintendent is examining his situation. But he said the problem has become much larger than just his concerns about his daughter's education, with parents of special-needs students coming forward from several different schools.
"I think we have an opportunity to step forward and say, 'You're right. Maybe some of these things aren't being done in the best interest of these special ed kids. Maybe we could create a better system,'" Fraley said.
Fraley and Smith spoke for a couple of hours in just one of their conversations last week. Fraley appreciated the time and consideration. But he was struck by the superintendent's own stories of raising a daughter with special needs.
One of Smith's 32-year-old twin daughters has cerebral palsy. Fraley's 14-year-old has multiple diagnoses, including cerebral palsy.
"He knows that I know what he's going through," the superintendent said in an interview.
And Smith's own experiences as a parent have informed his decision-making in the superintendent's office.
For instance, he is adamant that he will not discuss issues of special education students in large, public venues -- like the County Commission chamber. Having felt uncomfortable as a parent in special education group meetings in the past, Smith said he's now much more keen to work through issues with parents privately.
While he knows what it means to parent a child with special needs, Smith questioned the methods of parents who have shown up at commission.
Smith said his office has heard few complaints from special education parents. And board members hadn't heard about the problems before last week's public meetings.
For parents who have concerns and feel they have exhausted options at the school and central office, he said he's willing to investigate.
"But we've got to know where the problems are," Smith said. "We can't expect to get those from the news. We need to get those firsthand from the parent."
Smith also knows from experience that parents won't always get the answers they want. And he said he won't let parents dictate school decision-making.
Even with the recent hubbub, Smith said he trusts the school district's special education staff. That too, has something to do with his own experiences as a parent.
"I know how they do business. I was a parent myself in Hamilton County Schools," Smith said. "My daughter was a student here, graduated here. I have confidence in them."
And if nothing else, the shared experience might be one thing Fraley and Smith can build on.
"This is my role for life," Fraley said. "He and I on some level are in the same boat."
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The crew of Columbia was awakened for its first full day in space at 8:22 p.m. CST with the song "Blue Telescope" by John Hiatt. In its morning mail, the crew received news that mission managers are optimistic the full mission will go forward as planned in spite of low flow in a shuttle cooling line.
Commander Scott Altman, Pilot Duane Carey, Flight Engineer Nancy Currie and spacewalkers John Grunsfeld, Rick Linnehan, Jim Newman and Mike Massimino are beginning a complex mission to replace and upgrade key systems in the Hubble Space Telescope – a job that requires five back-to-back spacewalks, each more than six and a half hours long.
Mission managers met Friday evening to review information about the performance of the port side freon cooling system in Columbia's payload bay, which exhibited a degraded flow rate shortly after launch. They gave Columbia's crew a "go" to proceed with normal operations today and expressed confidence the shuttle will be allowed to complete its full mission. However, shuttle managers will meet again at midday Saturday for a further review of the potential cooling system problem and they are expected to reach a final conclusion at that time on proceeding with a Sunday capture of Hubble and the ensuing spacewalks. The degraded cooling system is one of two such systems aboard Columbia. The other system is operating perfectly. Only one of the systems is needed to provide cooling for the shuttle's electronics, but the concerns are whether the degraded cooling system can be used as a backup in the event the fully operational system were to experience unexpected problems. Although the one system is operating at a lower capacity, the problem has had no impact on any of the crew's activities and is not noticeable by the crew. Altman and Carey are getting ready to fire Columbia's reaction control system thrusters to fine-tune its approach to Hubble at 11:10 p.m. CST. Also tonight, the crew will test Columbia's robotic arm, examine the spacesuits on board, check out rendezvous equipment, and prepare the Flight Support System that will hold the telescope while it is berthed in the orbiter's payload bay.
Currie is scheduled to use Columbia's robot arm to grapple Hubble shortly after 3 a.m. CST Sunday, setting the stage for the first spacewalk early Monday morning.
During Hubble's fourth service mission, the crew of Columbia will spend five days replacing the observatory's solar arrays, its main power switching unit, and a gyroscopic pointing mechanism called a Reaction Wheel Assembly. In addition, the spacewalkers will install a new camera called the Advanced Camera for Surveys that can view twice the area of the sky as Hubble's current camera. The spacewalkers will install a cooling system and an external radiator for the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer, which requires very cold temperatures to function.
Columbia is in a 356 by 127 statute mile orbit of the Earth, catching up to Hubble about 1,000 miles every orbit. The next STS-109 mission status report will be issued Saturday morning or earlier if events warrant.
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Former Political Prisoner Eddie Conway To Speak at UNC and in Durham
Marshall "Eddie" Conway was the defense minister of the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party. Framed for the murder of two Baltimore police officers in 1970, he was sentenced to life in prison. While in prison, Eddie Conway earned three diplomas, started a prison literacy program, and organized prisoner unions and libraries. Conway has authored two books from prison, Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther, and his exposé The Greatest Threat: The Black Panther Party and COINTELPRO. After serving 43 years in prison, Conway was released on March 4, 2014.
Eddie Conway will be speaking about his time in the Black Panther Party, his prisoner organizing work inside prison, and what his life has been like since being released.
You can find out more about Eddie Conway's story here.
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THE Bogey Man is back.
Australian centre Andrew Bogut made his long-awaited return to the court with his NBA side Golden State Warriors in their 114-102 win over Toronto Raptors in Toronto today.
Bogut scored 12 points, grabbed seven rebounds and had four blocks in 23 minutes on court. He had previously missed 39 games with an ankle injury after playing the first four matches of the season.
Most impressively for Warriors fans, Bogut quickly meshed with all-star power forward David Lee (21 points, 12 rebounds, seven assists) with the pair combining for nine assists including a flashy Lee pass which ended in a Bogut dunk.
Speaking post-game to the CSN Bay Area television team, Bogut looked elated to have got through his return match.
"It's been hell for me for the past two months," he said. "It felt great to get out there and before the game I thanked the coaches for being patient; it's been a frustrating time for me and for my supporters, this [missing games] was the last thing I wanted but now it feels like I'm almost there."
Despite looking comfortable and moving confidently up and down the court, Bogut said he was unlikely to play any back-to-back nights for a few weeks as he lets his body adjust to being back on court.
The Warriors face Cleveland tomorrow but Bogut is unlikely to play.
"We will see what happens, I'll speak with the trainers but I think back-to-backs are out of the question until after the all-star break [next month]," he said.
Overall Bogut said he was most pleased to lead his side to a win.
"It would have been useless to come back if we lost," he said. "[Getting back on court] beats running on the treadmill, I'll tell you that much. This is what I love to do and what I'm paid to do."
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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I was excited when TEDWomen was announced--a special two-day conference of TED talks about women and girls, across disciplines and topics and countries, set for early December here in Washington, DC. Part of the TEDx program which has covered in-depth topics as varied as the BP oil spill or topics focused on one city or neighborhood, it struck me as another way of slicing the vast array of potential topics with a special perspective.
Actually, that was the part I could assume, as it's how TED operates. What really excited me was the chance to see a program built around and focused on women and topics related to their concerns and perspectives, one powered by TED's incredible reach.
Then came the backlash. Women and men complained that this would segregate or ghetto-ize women, suggest that they're not capable of participating in a mixed-gender event, and should not occur. A sample: This writer says: "Making special allowances is the equivalent of saying one group isn't as able, isn't as driven, isn't as intelligent, and therefore needs a hand up."
Now TEDWomen has restated that both men and women will speak at the conference on the topic of women and girls and how they are powering "ideas worth spreading:"
...the intent behind the conference is to seek out talks about women and girls (not just by them). As with every TED, the speaker program will include men and women, and also a few women & men presenting together. The program we're envisioning is varied, surprising, diverse. Focused on ideas and innovations. Now, I understand (after reading some insightful comments) that the launch of TEDWomen raises the question: Are we segregating women? The answer is "No." We're not launching TEDWomen instead of balancing out our speaker line-up. This is a "Yes, and" rather than an "either/or." We generally have 30-40% women speakers at all TED events.I understand the umbrage. Who wants to think they need extra help? And in fact, those who pay attention to the attitudes and practices that keep many women from speaking in public, or just speaking up, work hard to say that "this isn't because there's something wrong with the women." Great--something (I hope) we can all agree on.
But there is something wrong (and has been for centuries) in how we speak about and carry out public speaking when women are doing it. So no matter how able, driven and intelligent the women speakers are, they're often talked over, omitted from programs, or otherwise discouraged from speaking, sometimes by laws and more often by subtle forms of discrimination. I wish that at least one talk at TEDWomen would emphasize this, because it underscores just how extraordinary the conference is--and how unfortunate it is that it's extraordinary.
Consider these gender issues in speaking, culled from this blog:
- Men and women routinely repeat four myths about women and speaking: that women talk more than men do, that the organizers couldn't find any women competent enough to speak at professional conferences in a wide range of professions (even those dominated by women), that women aren't good at speaking up, and that women's "too emotional" style of speaking holds them back. Research disproves the myths (see details at the link)--for example, studies of women and men speaking in meetings finds that women are no less capable at speaking up, but are viewed negatively when they do. The myths are effective ways to keep women from speaking up in public, a subtle form of discrimination so ingrained we barely recognize it.
- Keeping women off the program as speakers has a long history that, in the U.S., includes Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe and the leaders of the movement to get women a vote. Today, it's still a hot topic of discussion in professions that range from high technology and social media to medicine, psychiatry and library science. Set against this backdrop, TED's record of programs with 30-40 percent women speakers is what's unusual, and helping to reshape a longtime standard that works against women speakers. Even in ordinary meetings where women are present, they often find themselves talked over, or others take credit for points women made earlier--subtle, smaller ways to "keep them off the program." (It happens to powerful women like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, as well as in your meetings.)
- Women who speak in public, or just speak up, often face being dismissed as sexual objects. Sojourner Truth was told she must be a man because no women could speak so well, and men suggested she show her breasts to a group of women to prove her gender (she bared them in front of the questioning, mixed crowd instead). More recently, Internet researcher Danah Boyd gave a talk in front of a live Twitter feed in which men in the audience wondered publicly what it would be like to "do" her.
(TED talk on the art of choosing by Sheena Iyengar.)


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Sticky sesame tofu
2 blocks extra firm Mori-nu tofu
1/2 c cornstarch
oil for frying
1/4 c honey (or brown sugar if you're vegan)
1/4 c soy sauce (gf)
1/4 c rice vinegar
1 chopped up hot chili, or 1 t chili flakes
2 T sesame oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
3/4" piece of ginger, skinned and grated
sesame seeds
Open the boxes of tofu and cut them in half the long way, to make two thinner blocks of tofu. Press between paper towels, and balance a plate or book on top, whie you make the sauce. Combine honey, soy sauce, vinegar, chili, sesame oil, garlic and ginger in a small pan. Cook over medium heat until slightly thickened and sticky. Cut the tofu into cubes, dust with cornstarch, and fry in batches. Drain on paper towels.
Snow peas
1 t sesame oil
2 c snow peas (or more)
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 T water
1 T soy sauce
1 T rice wine vinegar
Heat oil in a sauce pan. Cook the garlic until fragrant, add snow peas and water, and cover and cook for 2 minutes. Remove lid, add soy sauce and vinegar, and cook 2 more minutes.
To assemble:
In a bowl or on a plate, place a mound of rice. Put tofu on top, pour sauce over, sprinkle with sesame seeds, and serve with snow peas!


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From Patrick Plourde, creative director of Far Cry® 3, and Jeffrey Yohalem, the lead writer of Assassin's Creed® Brotherhood, comes Child of Light™, a digital title developed by Ubisoft® Montreal.
Child of Light is an adventure inspired by fairy tales. The story takes us on the coming-of-age journey of Aurora, the daughter of a duke, who is transported to the fantastic world of Lemuria. Identified as a Child of Light and granted the power of flight, Aurora must fight the dark creatures of the Queen of the Night on her quest to save the sun, the moon, and the stars. Along the way she'll discover that her destiny may be far greater than she ever dreamed.


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If you are a new Internet marketer and you are looking for easy ways to provide an ecommerce marketing strategy there are many things that you can do. The most common is the use of blogs.
An easy ecommerce marketing strategy that you might consider using is blogging because it is so simple. If you are new to Internet marketing and you want to provide efforts to customers that is simple then this is where you should start. Blogging works in many ways which include providing inbound links, improving page rank, improving search engine status, and can assist with damage control.
Blogging includes discussion forums regarding products or services that can be posted throughout the World Wide Web. This type of ecommerce marketing strategy is very popular because it gives people a sense of ownership with their postings and they have the ability to post to most sites if they are relevant. Blogging can help with branding for a new business and getting the word out that they exist. This is not only popular but very beneficial in many ways.
When you use blogs to improve a site with the search engines one very important factor is including direct links to the customer's site. These direct links may be words integrated into the article that are hyperlinks or you may direct the customers by offering the website itself. The goal of providing these direct links is to give customers an easy way to get back to the site to see for themselves what you are talking about in the blog. The last thing you want to do is forget a link and force the customer to go looking on the web for the business, especially if the site rank in the search engines is poor. Without direct links a blog is very ineffective.
Inbound links or direct links not only provide a way for customers to get to the site but they are a positive note for the website through the search engines. Search engines rank sites in search results based on popularity. The more inbound links a site has to attached to their site the better and more popular the site appears to be to the search engine. This helps move a site up with the search engine results. The higher a site is in search engine results the more traffic it will drive to the website. The more traffic a website has coming to it, the better their page rank is through Alexa. Customers trust a site with a good page rank and page rank is often the first thing that customers verify when they arrive on a site.
Damage control is a big factor with blogging and it is used for this all of the time. When you design an ecommerce marketing strategy, it may be to clear up some rumors about the company or save face. If a business has made a mistake in the past and they have a bad reputation but they are working hard to repair the problems and make it up to the customers, they may hire you to step in and provide damage control. The best way to do this is through blogging. You will go to blogs that you find people talking badly of the company and answer for the company on how they are fixing the problems and change the attitude of a negative light to something positive. This way when people read the blogs they are not poorly influenced but encouraged to go and see how well things are going now.


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There is a strong connection between what you eat and the health of your immune system. Nevertheless, nutritional approaches to prevent and treat conditions like candidiasis (fungal, yeast infections) are complicated and controversial. While there isn't a magic recipe that prevents or treats yeast infections in everyone, following some basic guidelines may lower the risk of yeast becoming a problem.
Most nutritionists agree that sugar, yeast, dairy, wheat, caffeine, nicotine and alcohol are the main culprits because they help yeast to grow. In people with healthy immune systems, the body is usually able to fight off the excess yeast made by these products. But for people with weakened immune systems, yeast can grow out of control, leading to certain kinds of fungal infections, like oral or vaginal candidiasis, or more seriously, esophageal (in the throat/esophagus) candidiasis. To prevent this, nutritionists recommend eating as little as possible of these foods that contribute to the excess production of yeast.
Another approach is to eat larger amounts of foods that may suppress the growth of yeast. For example, garlic is believed by some nutritionists to have natural antifungal properties and may help to prevent candidiasis. Fresh garlic is considered best, although commercial garlic "pills" offer the advantage of reduced odors. Fresh garlic can be mixed into other foods, eaten raw after removing the dry outer skin, or minced and put into empty gelatin capsules, up to six cloves a day.
Another factor that can contribute to uncontrolled yeast growth is the use of antibiotics. "Friendly" bacteria are found naturally in the body and establish a healthy balance while eliminating unfriendly yeasts. These bacteria are similar to Lactobacilli, the bacteria that turn milk into yogurt. Many common antibiotics (like tetracycline and penicillin) kill these bacteria which then allows yeast to grow, especially in the vagina. It is not unusual, even in people with healthy immune systems, to experience some form of candidiasis after a prolonged use of antibiotics, so it is important to use antibiotics only when truly necessary.
In order to lessen this effect from antibiotics and promote healthy bacteria in general, many nutritionists recommend adding Lactobacilli acidophilus bacteria to your diet. It can be found in yogurts and certain milks (look for Lactobacilli acidophilus on the label). You can also take it in pill form, available at many health food stores.
Oral candidiasis or thrush can change how you taste and enjoy foods. It can also make eating and swallowing difficult. Avoiding acidic, spicy or hot foods as well as cigarettes, alcohol and carbonated drinks may lessen this effect. All of these can irritate the insides of your mouth. Soft, cool and bland foods (like oatmeal, mashed beans, apple sauce) are recommended.
Many people use liquid food supplements to ease painful mouth infections and to keep or add on weight. Unfortunately, many of these supplements are high in sugars, which can promote yeast growth. If you use liquid supplements, make sure they contain mainly complex carbohydrates, are high in protein and have low-to-moderate sugar levels. It's important to remember that these products are intended to be supplements and should not replace solid food.
There are some reports that gargling with tea tree oil diluted with water can help treat oral candidiasis. Generally these gargles (two drops of oil in a tablespoon of water) are used in the morning, night and after meals. They are sometimes swabbed directly on mouth sores (one drop of oil to one drop of water). Grapefruit seed extract and 1% hydrogen peroxide may also be used in a similar way, but must be more heavily diluted and should NEVER be swallowed. However, these approaches (especially grapefruit seed extract) may irritate the mouth and promote infection. Moreover, they only address the local symptoms of yeast growth and not the underlying causes.
Overall, the best way to naturally treat and prevent fungal infections is to eat healthfully and regularly, avoid excessive sugar intake and avoid or decrease alcohol and cigarette use.
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Stuart takes an in depth look at pentatonic scale theory and demonstrates many different ways it can be applied within blues music.
Taught by Stuart Ziff in Blues Guitar with Stuart Ziff seriesLength: 34:05Difficulty: 3.5 of 5
I can't believe there's no pdf to this lesson- ( or just a graphic on the screen)...
Thanks for a great series. I love this lesson because it opened my eyes to the use of 5 notes scales in general, not just this application.
Awesome lesson! Master it and nothing will be the same again.
I'm not seeing any information from this lesson in the supplemental content.
Good to see you again I'm very happy specale with this lesson I'm lookoing for this information for a rael long time, and your teaching is great, thanks very much I hope to see lot more from you.
A vertitable pentationic Stew! Tasty!!
yes, more stuart. I love these lessons. It's like hanging out with a very experienced pro/friend at a jam session. Awesome!
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Stuart will demonstrate his own unique style of Blues guitar. He will talk about the genre and demonstrate why this unique style is a staple of American music.
Lesson 1
Stuart doesn't waste an ytime diving into blues as he starts his series off by demonstrating one of the most iconic and recognizable blues rhythm patterns, the "flat tire" shuffle.Length: 13:34 Difficulty: 1.5 FREE
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Rhythm in blues is essential, and Stuart provides some tips on how the foundation for blues rhythm can be built.Length: 11:44 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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In this lesson, Stuart demonstrates how to create complementary rhythms that accompany the rest of the band or layer in while a soloists takes over.Length: 11:39 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Stuart demonstrates how simple single note lines can really influence rhythm within blues music.Length: 17:24 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Stuart moves forward in his blues series by demonstrating the minor pentatonic scale. He explains how some major artists have influenced its use within blues music.Length: 17:02 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Even though they are less common than major keys, minor keys play a huge part in blues music. Stuart discusses and demonstrates minor blues concepts.Length: 13:13 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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This lesson provide tips on soloing over minor blues progressions. Stuart uses a backing track to help demonstrate some basic fundamentals to keep in mind while soloing.Length: 20:06 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Adding a "swing" to eighth note groupings is the subject of this lesson. Stuart demonstrates how this simple rhythmic technique gives blues music part of its signature feel.Length: 11:17 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Stuart utilizes the swing technique to help demonstrate how "uptown blues" has its own unique sound that stems from larger, urban east coast cities.Length: 15:15 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Stuart demonstrates what a ii-V change is and explains how it is such a widely used turnaround within blues music.Length: 16:53 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Stuart takes an in depth look at pentatonic scale theory and demonstrates many different ways it can be applied within blues music.Length: 34:05 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Stuart will demonstrate what a 2 bar phrase is and how it can be used within the blues genre.Length: 15:43 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Stuart will now demonstrate what bottleneck slide blues guitar is, some of his favorite artists, and the techniques on how to achieve that unique twang sound.Length: 7:24 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Stuart will now dive much deeper into the many different techniques that are needed to create a Bottleneck Slide Blues sound.Length: 14:14 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Stuart will continue his slide blues techniques by demonstrating how to find intervals within an open tuning.Length: 9:54 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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A veteran guitarist fluent in, Blues, R&B, Funk, Rock, Reggae and everything in between. As a Studio Musician playing guitar on numerous commercials, demos for singer-songwriters and records.
A career as a songwriter that began with Warner Bros recording artist David Ball's first Nashville CD in 1994 " Thinking Problem ." Stuart was co writer on the hit song " Thinking Problem." Also playing on the record supplying acoustic and electric guitar. Since 2000, He's been living in Los Angles.
Presently the Guitarist for the band WAR, touring and recording with them. As a songwriter for Film & TV: " National Lampoons Cattle Call ," Americas Funniest Home Videos and Bad Girls. Songs on recordings by Eric Burden, Johnny Adams, Gary Hoey and Theresa James. Since 2005, a member of the faculty at Musician's Institute in Hollywood.
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